"These properties are donated and dedicated to the Boy Scouts of
America for the purpose of perpetuating faith—self
reliance—integrity—freedom. Principles used to build this great country
by the American pioneer so that these future citizens may, through
thoughtful adult guidance, and by the inspiration of nature visualize
and form a code of living to diligently maintain these high ideals and
our proper destiny." ~Waite Phillips at the dedication of Philmont
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We have several Scouts in our crew who wear contact lenses. Most are not planning to wear them to Philmont (including myself) due to the concern of handling them with dirty hands. One Scout has constant wear lenses so it will be easier for him since he sleeps in them. Does anyone have any input regarding this? How difficult is it to wear contacts at Philmont and is it worth it? Any thoughts?
I am sure by now, most of us have heard about the 4 young men killed by a tornado in Iowa at the Mid-America Council's Little Sioux Scout Ranch. I'll not re-hash the news stories available with a Google search here.
I will share the link to the Mid-America Council website - www.mac-bsa.org - and urge you to look to it for up-to-date information.
Currently, the council is not going to set up any sort of memorial fund for the Scouts. If/when I can find memorial information, I'll post it here. If you find memorial information and wish to share it, please post a comment to this article (link is below) and share that information.
I know this is not essentially Philmont or high adventure related, but if there is any way this community can help, I'd sure like to help. I cannot imagine what those parents are going through right how. I know that my Troop is preparing for summer camp very soon, and this news hits moms and dads really hard. Pray for those families and for those Troops.
I received the 2008 Philmont trail menu documents from Pat Adams today. They have not yet finished putting breakfasts together - still putting together 4 meals.
UPDATE - Pat sent out the completed 2008 trail menu today (all meals finalized). The llink below will open the updated file.
2008 Philmont Trail Menu and Ingredients List - This lists the make-up of each meal and the ingredients of each part of each meal. This is useful information for people with food allergies.
A new thread on the message board on cooking techniques spurred me to put our "modified turkey bag" method of cooking and KP down for the site.
First the reasons we use this method of cooking:
It is a very "clean" method of cooking in bear country. All of the dry ingredients are contained in a very small area of camp and are handled by only two people.
It is a very simple method. Measure the right amount of water for your meal, add it to the dry ingredients, stir, and enjoy the crew's company for 10 minutes while dinner "cooks."
We only heat water once. We heat enough water for both cooking and KP at the same time. The pot cozy will keep the KP water hot enough for KP for well over an hour. This allows for a great decrease in the volume of white gas used over the course of an 11 day trip.
We believe in doing a proper KP after every meal, and KP with this method takes about 5 to 7 minutes.
Water Chart
Water Chart